Was at a parade earlier in my city with a group of friends.

Ended up sitting and chatting with a friend's wife. The conservation turned to dating, and I remarked that men have a dominance instinct which governs men's dating behaviour, which she readily agreed with.

So I followed with "Women are hypergamous..."

"What's that?"

"Well, women date up, not down."

"Pfft... of course."

You are not seen as a discrete human being... you are a resource and every woman on the planet knows this.

Act accordingly.